According to the late chef Anthony Bourdain, São Paulo “feels like Los Angeles threw up on New York", and although many of my fellow locals took that as an offence, I think Bourdain just nailed it on his definition of my hometown.
With a population of 12.1 million people living in an area of 1,521.11 km2 (587.3039 sq mi) just in the city of Sao Paulo, excluding the metropolitan area, isn't so hard to see how much we failed in urban planning.
On the middle of the picture is the Pico do Jaraguá, the highest mountain in the city at 1,135 m (3,724 ft) above sea level, and with the TV and Radio antennae on top of it, I guess Bourdain would probably relate this northern part of the town more with LA than with NYC...

I know I said the last post was the last post, but truth to be told, I had nothing much to do last weekend, so here are another picture of the Beetle, mixing some filters from Nik Collection and other manual adjustments on PaintShop Pro 2018...

As I said on the last post, I was amazed to see this old Beetle in a place without any intrusible satellite dishes, cell towers, aircon or any other 'modern' amenity, and this provided me a chance to play with the vintage filters of Nik Collections just for fun, mixing layers and layers of multiple filters, trying to emulate the image of what I remember from the family pictures of this time.
It's not a family picture of mine, but it could be...

I usually don't like to post several versions of similar photos, but I have a soft spot for old air-cooled Volkswagens, and this Beetle in such 'environment' is still making my mind travel through time.
The lack of any visible satellite dishes, cell tower, aircon or any other 'modern' amenity is a great canvas to play with some Nik Collection vintage filters that I usually ignore, and yet I liked this BW version better...

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